Ellen R. Gritz (born April 9, 1944) is an American psychologist and cancer researcher.
She is Professor and Chair Emerita of the Department of Behavioral Science and Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
[2][3] After graduating from Barnard, she worked as a research assistant at Bell Labs.
She then earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, where her dissertation focused on memory mechanisms of animals.
[6][7] Gritz was a professor at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center before moving to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1993 and held the founding Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science for 21 years until her retirement in 2014.